Dr. Cassidy Holahan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas specializing in British literature of the long eighteenth century. She researches and teaches across the fields of digital humanities, book history, media studies, gender and sexuality, the eighteenth-century novel, and the theater. She recieved her PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania in 2023.

She is currently working on her first book, Theater-Novel Networks: Tracing Transmedial Subjects in the Eigtheenth Century. Offering an innovative study at the intersection of the digital humanities, book history, and theater and performance studies, Theater-Novel Networks tracks transmedial exchange between the novel and the theater over the course of the long eighteenth century to argue that the wider theatrical mediascape—from stage costumes to panoramas—influenced the development of the novel, and in particular its construction of character. The project examines this exchange between the novel and the theater by reading authors who wrote in both forms, including Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, and Frances Burney, and by studying the adaptation of novels to the eighteenth-century stage. By situating the emerging novel in its own mediascape, this project counters the scholarly tendency to view the eighteenth-century novel as always striving for, and falling short of, the genre expectations of nineteenth-century realism. Moreover, by showing this literary exchange between the novel and the multimedia theater, Theater-Novel Networks (re)theorizes literary character as a transmedial phenomenon, and in doing so complicates and nuances our narrative of the rise of liberal individualism.

Holahan also specializes in digital surrogates and the digital remediation of archival material. Her recent article, "Rummaging in the Dark: ECCO as Opaque Digital Archive”, published in August 2021 in Eighteenth-Century Studies, considers how the presentation of digitized archival material in large-scale databases can lead to false assumptions about comprehensiveness, which in turn obscures archival decisions about intellectual order and scope. The article was the Rare Books School’s Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography essay prize and received an honorable mention for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ James L. Clifford Prize.

Holahan is involved in numerous Digital Humanities projects, which can be found on the "Digital Projects" page. This includes an interactive, materiality-based digital edition of Samuel Richardson 1755 print commonplace book, Collection of Moral Sentiments. The digital edition illuminates how Richardson employed proto-digital methods to parse and catalogue his popular novels. Holahan is also a project member on the collaborative project Romantic Melodrama, a five-year research project funded by The British Academy and sponsored by Queen Mary University of London, which aims to document every recorded performance of a melodrama in Britain between the 1793 and 1843.

She has co-authored work forthcoming in Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing with the University of Minnesota Press and in Studies in Romanticism.